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Alcohol Epidemiology StudiesThe Alcohol Program conducts applied public health research to assess the relationship between excessive drinking and other health and social outcomes, including unintended pregnancy, youth risk behaviors (e.g., sexual activity), violence, and alcohol-impaired driving. The Alcohol Program is also working with the CDC’s Community Guide Branch to systematically review the effectiveness of population-based interventions to prevent excessive alcohol consumption and related health outcomes for publication in the Alcohol Section of the Guide to Community Preventive Services.

State Public Health CapacityThe Alcohol Program is funding full-time alcohol epidemiologists in New Mexico and Michigan, and provides technical assistance to other state-based epidemiologists. The work being done by these epidemiologists is drawing attention to excessive drinking as a key health risk behavior, and supporting the implementation of effective policy and environmental strategies to prevent it.